Dexter High School - Signet Yearbook (Dexter, ME)

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FR1EiSHMA'N CLASS, N. H. 'FAY HIGH 'SCHOOL

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SOPHOMORE CLASS HISTOR Y As one turns b-ack -the page-s of hi-story he discovers that in the year, 1927 A. D. six-ty-nine students entered that institution of learning, N. H. Fay High. We -all had different ideas of what it was to be like. 'S-ome thought ithey were ,going to be 'treated roughly because they were Freebie-s g -othens believed thart their stud- ies would prove to be difficulty 'a few were going to take is easy and enjoy themselvesg but nobody was entirely right in his con- ce-pti-on. What a green bun-ch we :must have been those first few days! They had to show u-s where to sit in fthe- main room but then some of us fqilgot the very 'next day which rooms to :go to and at what perilodg also we were given books which we were to- use that whole, lon-g year. The next few days proved to be more diiiicult than the afirst had beeng everybody had trouble trying to find fthe right room, we would find our- selves in a Science class when we should hwave been in 'an Algebra class, or in fthe main room figuring -out -our 'troubles when we should- have been in the English class. Our mistakes were made harder by the upper-cla-ssmien who enjoyed the misery of the Freshmen. Every time there was a crash and -something came tumbling down stairs, our elders would laugh and say that there was another one of those Freshies who had not learned rho walknyeit. These were not our only .troubles be-cause the upper-cl-assmen were falways waiting for ia chance to mlake it disagreeable for us. If we were not looking for trouble, it was better for -our health to keep away from our elders. One thing -that pleased the class was rth-aft the 'Freshman reception could not be held. The next event .on 'our yearly pro-gram was the election of class officers. This was a s'afe- and sane election- with no -spilling of bl-ood and- none of the caandidates were shot. It took but -a short -time to get the returns which were :as follows: Pres-idenft, Elmer Fortierg Vice-president, Clair Wilkinsg 'Sec- retary, Bernice Rileyg Treasurer, Helen Hale. The first class supper was held at Maude Raymond's in Ripley, a small city mot far from Dexter. After a few difficulties the class 'arrived at its destination. Everyone seemed to have enjoyed himself 3 if he didn't it must have been his town fault. We entered 'the next fall after la long sumimer vacation with a class- of -sixty-one strong. Freshmen were to be our names no longerg we had now reached an equal foo-ting with the rest of .the school, as 'S-ophom-ores. The troubles of the Freshmen were now -amusingg they had not been so ,amusing ia year ago. Things were made as warm as lpossible for the Freshies by us. Our class officers had -grown old and 'gray from the burden they had sh-ouldered, -so another election was held in to-rder that they might be replaced. Hele-n- Hale received the ofiiee of President, Fred Crowell :gained the honor of becoming Secretary, and Beatrice Thompson was presented with the office of Treasurer. The .second supper of .the class was held at the home of Florence Avery, a new mem- ber of our class. It Weis :as good as the first one we lhad held, thanks. to our new member. But even though we wish it, life cannot :always be happyg it must have its sorrows. The passing of one of our best friends, Ber- nice Riley, was lone of the sorrows in our class life. She was well liked by 'her class- mates and will ,always be remembered by her many friends. Our stud-ies we found depended much up- on what we had leanned the year before. There were new members in our class roomsg some who 'had entered :at the begin- ning of the year and others who had failed the year before and were rbaking again the studies they had failed to pass. This brings our class history up to the present date. We fall have 'a class of which to be 'proud -and we should try to keep its record clean. Elmer Fortier '31.

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FRESHMAN CLASS HISTORY T-oo bad to spoil the opposite page with such a looking gvroup, but we must remem- ber they are -only freshmen and very green at that. There were fifty-f-our such -speci- mens who came through the doors of the N. H. Fay -High School, September 10, 1928, for the inspection -of 'the sophomores, ju- niors, amd -seniors who stood on every -avail- able foot of spa-ce -and gazed with wonder, amazement and,-well, some .of us th-ought dt to -be amusement which spread across their faces, as they shouldered each other in the main room doorway and tried to get a peek at us all. But after a few days or a week of gazing upon us, the novelty Wore off. At an early date we held a class supper and Norm-an Bryant was elected president of the cl-ass, Wilbert Richardson, vice-presi- dent, -Marjorie Mountain, secretary, and Louise Howard, treasurer. Later we had a class supper at the home of John Arno. fMr. and Mrs. Blake were chapero-nes. The -supper consisted of oyster stew :and pickles with assorted cake for de-sserlt. 'One of 'these cakes which was brought by Dorothy 'Clark was decorated with the words, Class of 1932. For a wh-ile after supper we wandered around out of doors. Then, horror of horrors, it began :to rain! The lightning dashed across the s-ky and the thunder roared with all its might. It rained for the rnext hour! We all hurried in-side and played 'game-se, Mrs. Blake .planning a number of them. 'Cars began to come to take some members home and the party began to grow smaller. A few of the cars almost got .stuck but finally managed to reach home. In the fall a football team was started. There were three freshmen boys -on it. These were Leonel Clukey, who broke his wrist while playing at Brownville, Nov. 3, 1928, Omar Cloutier, and Linus Rfobichaud. At the high -school -supper some of the freshmen furnished cars to collect food in and a 'number -of ithe girls acted as wait- resses. 'T-here were six freshmen in the Operetta: Evelyn Small, Beulah Goiokson, Omar Clou- tier, Keith Lawrence, Norman Bryant and Linus Robichaud. A class meeting was held to :talk 'over a basketball game between fthe Bangor fresh- men and the Dexter freshmen. A number of the students attending this meeting took tickets to sell. The Dexter boys woni Eliza Wed-ts dropped out in the- Christ- mas v-acafti-om leaving fifty-'three to come back in January. But arnother girl, Ru-th Waterhouse, came to 'take her place! We also lost Agatha Folsom who left school in April. In the Physical Training Exhibition there were fifteen freshmen -girls. They were Violet Brown, Beulah Cookson, Agatha Fol- som, Rita Ganeiau, Zeph-arine Gilbert, Ber- nice Haseltine, Evelyn Small, 'Gertrude Tit- oomb, Edna Towle, Isabel Bentley, Beatrice Cheney, Dorothy Clark, T-helma Lowell, Flora McLeod and Ruth W-alterh-ouse. There is -one freshman on the 'boys' bas- ketball team. He is Nick Robichaud. The only freshman on .the Giml's Basketball team is our little small sh-ort girl , Evelyn Small. In taking part in the-se sch-ool activities we feel that we have but made 'the introduc- tion to the things which we shall do in our coming three years at N. H. 'Fay High. Doris Bridges '32.